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Fact or fiction, I loved this book. I wish people would just read this and the Harry Potter series and treat them as what they are...fictional works.
Posted on August 17, 2005 5:15 PM
I agree about Potter. Davinci Code seemed too far fetched for me, much like a James Bond movie. Wat to muc intellectual sneering...
Posted on August 17, 2005 8:19 PM
Yeah, but James Bond as a professor of antiquities? Pretty odd. The only thing I didn't care for in he book was the timeline. I doubt Tom Hanks could stay on the go non-stop for about 36-48 straight hours and still have any wits left for a final confrontation with Opus Dei. {;-)
Posted on August 17, 2005 8:36 PM
Quote from Frank Devine's review of the DiVinci Code:
Deriding Brown's pretensions to knowledge of Leonardo's work, Boucher*** wrote that the novel had the makings of an opera rather than a movie because, in Voltaire's words: "If it's too silly to be said, it can always be sung."
***Bruce Boucher is the curator of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Posted on August 18, 2005 10:16 AM
I dunno much about Da Vinci's work either but if I wanted to learn about him, I would not have picked up this fictional book to accomplish that so that dude is as silly as the statement he made, in my opinion. Again, it was a good yarn, that's all.
Posted on August 18, 2005 2:03 PM
it was a good yarn, that's all.
That's exactly what Mr. Boucher was infering, govwriter and used the quote from Voltaire to say that in a slightly different way.
Posted on August 18, 2005 2:25 PM
OK. I'm operating on one hour of sleep over here so I'm more dull at the edges than normal. (smile)
Posted on August 18, 2005 6:17 PM